Fellow Monkeys,
What are your thoughts on riding an electric scooter to work? I live in Manhattan towards 1st/2nd ave in the mid 20s and work in midtown on Park. An uber in the morning takes forever (40 min with traffic) and the subway is a pretty far walk and is always unreliable. Any downsides I should be thinking of with an electric scooter? Is it acceptable for an IB analyst/associate to be ride a scooter to work or am I just overthinking it?
This will cut my commute to less than ~15-18 minutes door to door...
Something like this:
In late 2018/early 2019 Piaggio is coming out with an electric Vespa. I think it'll look pretty cool but you'll have to shell out more money than the scooter posted.
M8 you ordered it for London?
I'm waiting for the price; knowing Piaggio it'll be as much as a Kawasaki Ninja just because it's electric hahahah
The subway isn't unreliable. Its pretty good in NYC.
Just take the 6 on 28th street up to 51st (assuming your office is around there). Door to door, it shouldn't take you more than 25 or 30 minutes. This commute is not that bad at all.
Been thinking about this too. I don't have to worry too much about what my colleagues think since I'm not in banking, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet because I guess I'm afraid of looking like a weirdo more generally. Thoughts on that?
How do you plan on scootering when there's snow in the winter?
OP is most likely not a moron and simply wouldn't scooter in the winter.
Gee, u don't have to be such a dick about it...
For snow days I would have to cab or Uber in. This is generally for clear days - recalculated my commute. If I keep an average speed of ~10 mph it would take me ~9-11 minutes (using googles biking route calculator). I feel like pulling the trigger, but don't want to look like weirdo riding around with an electric scooter and dress clothes on.
You're going to take a cab or Uber to work every day in the winter? Do you have any idea how expensive that will be? You will easily end up spending over 1k/month.
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Are you completely against the subway?
You're serious about this scooter thing. I honestly wouldn't be caught dead on an electric scooter in NYC. How can you seriously be thinking about riding that thing?
Please at least get an electric skateboard or something. You can get a decent one for $300 that goes 17mph or $1000 to go 22mph. Electric scooters are literally birth control. Electric skateboards are kind of geeky/cool, you can pass with one of those, its fine.
I mean bro, where's your swag?
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I'd also think about safety, this is the NYC, after all. Sooner or later you will get into an accident of some sort.
MRD brings up a great point. You don't want to be hit on an electric scooter!
If you're going to get hit, at least be on an electric skateboard or something that doesn't sound so horrificly lame as an electronic scooter. Maybe a Halo board.
https://www.haloboard.com/pages/halo-board
Just go full out Casey Neistat and buy a $2500 boosted board.
Whenever I read the word "scooter' I hear it in a nerd's voice with saliva gargling between his braces with he pronounces the 's'. It's hard to spell... hlhlcooter
I believe out in SF, they have a nickname. On the radio, they were called, "Jackasses." These riders on those rent-a-scooters would ride obnoxiously and swerve/near hit people. Some cities are banning them.
You are definitely overthinking this. That being said; you will look like a dweeb.
Just ride a bicycle. It's a lot cheaper, a lot less lame, and you'll get some light exercise during your commute.
Dont want to work 16+ hours after a sweating in the summer riding a bike to midtown in dress clothes.
I did it for a few years. Just worse shorts and changed before walking into the office. Whatever you do though, wear a helmet!
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As long as you look presentable and it does not interfere with your work, why the hell would anyone care how you get to the office?
A conversation that is never going to happen: "I was going to pay this guy top bucket, but he rides a scooter to work so I am going to have to give him a doughnut."
Stop caring what other people, makes life much easier. Plus, everyone in NY is so preoccupied with themselves that they barely notice anyone else.
I lived in NYC before bike lanes were common. I am also a former pro cyclist and raced crits for years (i.e. shoulder to shoulder combat). After my first few rides in NYC, I gave it up until I moved to Colorado. Every other block a cab would nearly hit me. Expect that to be your experience on a scooter.
The bike lanes are really good. I rode a carbon fiber road bike around NYC for years with little issues. Longboard skateboards are great as well.
One day though, I was riding my bike to CFA class (Stalla with Peter Olinto, back in the day) and I was running late. I thought I was going to be able to make it, so I was riding fast up 6th avenue to class at Hotel Pennsylvania hitting a bunch of yellow lights. I think I must have hit 5 in a row. Then some cop jaywalked on the yellow and I hit her along with this other guy. I hit the other guy first and he fell into the cop, but we all ended up on the ground. His phone shattered and he grabbed it and ran off. This cop was a bit rotund and she was in one of those crappy three wheeled vehicles that look like a geeky cop golf cart. I don't know why she was blindly walking across 6th ave. I think her figure cushioned her from the fall, but when she got up she was all pissed. She said I ran a red light, which was ridiculous. I saw people jaywalking, but I didn't have a bell or horn. I couldn't avoid them because there was a whole group of people jaywalking and they usually scatter, but these two didn't.
I was actually kind of pissed at her. She started writing a ticket, so I started to be a real ass. She ripped off the ticket with a huge attitude and then I told her I would see her in court. Stupid cop makes me late for class, I get a ticket, and I have to pay money for her jaywalking, no f-ing way. She was lucky she didn't mess up my carbon fiber baby.
Then, later, I login to check the status of the ticket and it never comes up in the system. I checked again a week later, and again. Nothing. She never entered it into the system.
I don't think she was ever planning on entering it into the system, all that ticket writing was just for show to avoid blame. Freaking 5.0...
Putting aside dealing with cabbies for a minute, NYC sidewalks and streets are full of people staring at their phones during rush hour. All I am saying is get ready to play "Asteroids" the entire time.
Sounds cool but two caveats: 1) You need a reliable place to park the scooter at both ends; 2) As others mentioned, the accident risk is high. For expert advice on just how risky it is, ask a bike messenger.
I have reliable places to park on both ends - building has a secured bike stand and at home I can just take it up in the elevator.
Give it a try then. As someone said above, who gives a shit what anyone thinks. If you think it works for you do it. Its not like you are breaking new ground.
If you ride an electric scooter enough times in the city, you will get hit by a car.
I think it should be fine to scooter to work. But while we're at it, have you considered biking to work? I don't know how far you'd have to bike or what the traffic situation is, but I think that if you were to bike to work, you could double your transportation time to and from work as a light exercise time to stay healthy and relieve some stress. Also, I would assume that since traffic is a concern here a moped isn't the type of scooter you're looking for right?
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